According to official sources, an assistant is a person who helps a highly qualified specialist in work or in conducting certain studies. People with higher education can apply for an assistant position. Usually this work is combined with postgraduate studies.
It becomes clear that an assistant is a person who begins his career and does not have sufficient experience in a certain field. Similar posts appeared during the time of Tsarist Russia, and to a greater extent they related to research, legal and medical activities. Vacancies for assistants are still relevant in higher education institutions, where young specialists have the opportunity to study and gain the necessary experience in scientific activity.
Of course, today various types of work as an assistant are well known . This can be an assistant director or sound engineer, manager, doctor or lawyer. However, modern trends dictate new conditions, and this position is gradually moving into other areas of employment.
Assistant at the Department
The assistant of the department is an employee whose activities belong to the category of teaching, but are limited to certain standards. For example, such employees conduct seminars and laboratory classes, help the lecturer in conducting exams, seminars, colloquiums and tests. If there are not enough teachers at the department, then the assistants of the department are allowed to give lectures to undergraduate or specialty. However, only teachers with academic degrees read lectures.
Usually, assistants spend much more hours of study than higher teaching staff (associate professors and professors), but at the same time their remuneration is much less.
Doctor's assistant
An employee with a higher medical education can become an assistant to a doctor. His responsibilities usually include:
- Preliminary assessment of the patient.
- Help the doctor with any medical procedures.
- Fulfillment of instructions relating to medical activities.
Most often, such assistants are junior and mid-level medical staff, as well as medical students, graduate students and interns.
New areas of assistant activity
In modern recruiting terminology, such a concept as a business assistant has appeared. And this is natural, because any progressive leader needs an assistant who can take on some tasks and free the businessman from the burden of routine business. And the larger and more solid the company, the more urgent is the need for an intelligent assistant to the head.
However, a business assistant is not a secretary at all, because his powers are much wider than meeting guests, receiving and processing correspondence or phone calls. Therefore, when searching for a candidate for this position, special requirements are usually made. When choosing a suitable employee for this position, a successful manager always declares the highest possible criteria not only for education, professional qualities, experience and skills, but also personal qualities and habits.